Press Release

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) www.fda.gov has approved three antibiotics to treat anthrax:

Penicillin

Doxycycline

Ciprofloxacin

CDC Disease Detectives status

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to work with state and local
health departments, law enforcement officials, and other federal agencies to investigate
incidents of possible anthrax exposures around the United States. In Atlanta, CDC officials
continue to work out of a 24 hour Operations Center. The Operations Center includes
approximately 50 work stations equipped with state of the art information systems, phone
lines, and fax machines. The Operations Center is also responding to hundreds of calls each
day from the public. CDC has dispatched more than three dozen employees to either Florida, New
York City, or Washington, D.C. More than 50 CDC laboratories have processed hundreds of
specimens.